US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 30 for "Downhole gyroscope employing a non-contact gyroscope indexing mechanism" (Nebraska Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,949, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Downhole gyroscope employing a non-contact gyroscope indexing mechanism" was invented by James Michael Johnson (Elmwood, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A downhole gyroscopic surveying tool includes a gyroscopic sensor deployed in and configured to rotate between a first rotational position and a second rotational position about an indexing axis in a downhole tool body. A non-contact detent is configured to secure the gyroscopic sensor in either the first rotational position or the second rotational position. A drive mechanism is configu...